Feb 28: What is one change you can make to improve your carbon footprint, whether on your farm or in your daily activities?

[luz.ballesteros]

The first session was great & I loved this question.
"What is one change you can make to improve your carbon footprint, whether on your farm or in your daily activities?"

I unfortunately don't have a farm but one thing I try to do is always purchasing local animal products from regenerative producers like meat, chicken, dairy, and cheese. I also love flowers and recently I have been growing some in my balcony.

 

[John Steitz]

Every Morning is a new opportunity to make an improvement on our sheep operation. Whether we are in grazing season or hooves on 2 ft of snowpack we are constantly managing our pastures or lots to improve them as we can. Any idea that we have implemented can always be improved. Experience, read. listen and experience again... It's a hunger. The gains we have made are very evident; the real possibility of improving those advances is fascinating.

 

[Prairie Shepherd]

I'm going to build beaver dam analogs to help restore a healthy water cycle in riparian zones, and small rock structures to help reverse erosion in dry coulees on my property. I love these techniques that can be done by hand, with materials on hand, a little bit at a time -- and that will pay back in more grass for my sheep, more drought resiliency for my property, and more carbon in the ground over time!

 

[John Steitz]

I'm going to build beaver dam analogs to help restore a healthy water cycle in riparian zones, and small rock structures to help reverse erosion in dry coulees on my property. I love these techniques that can be done by hand, with materials on hand, a little bit at a time -- and that will pay back in both more grass for my sheep, more drought resiliency for my property, and more carbon in the ground over time!
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Great idea and without beavers that would do alot but why not a beaver introduction? .... Let the beavers do the work

 

[Prairie Shepherd]

Great question, John Steitz! Not enough water here now for beavers to survive -- but maybe the Field of Dreams approach will eventually change that: if you build it (beaver dam analogs), they (first water, then beavers) will come!